Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coney Island, New York fun park. Last year Mrs. Sarah S. Dennen, the owner, announced she would move the structure to Coney Island in one piece, movers to be trained by highway authorities lest their bridges be damaged. In dismantling the house workmen found "a little homespun vest for a child of four or five years, tucked deeply away in the corner of a bedroom." Mrs. Dennen turned it over to the Metropolitan Museum to determine...
With a sack inside his vest, wily jack-the-giant-killer climbed the beanstalk and banqueted competitively with the Giant. While giant ate, Jack stuffed sack instead of stomach. Then, with a sword, he disgorged the sack's contents. Not to be outdone, the giant ripped himself open, died...
With hollow tubes inside their vests, wily Prohibition Agent H. H. Porter and assistants last week deployed on Atlantic City's boardwalk and drank with oldtime beer-hounds. While the beer-hounds drank, Agent Porter and crew put their liquor into their hollow tubes, to which access was available through the top vest-button. When the tubes disgorged their contents, the agents thought the giant Drink would be slain in Atlantic City. They had seen every sign af drunkenness in 15 different bars visited...
...almost one seventh of the globe's population. The General was in ordinary, long trousered U. S. evening dress. The Comrade, a shade more conventional, wore regulation British Court knee breeches, but above, instead of a standard ambassador's tight, gold laced jacket, he wore a coat and vest similar to General Dawes...
...Brooklyn, one Max Rosenthal, money-greedy, found that when gypsies tucked a $1 bill under his vest, it became a $2 bill overnight, $10 became $20. Confidently he handed them $3,800 for tucking. Overnight the $3,800 became $10, the gypsies travelers...